In a word - yes, but that only emphasizes the Candidate's "short game". I used the vernacular of avid golfer because I hear that the Candidate's golfing abilities have only improved since he has been it office.
Published: Monday, December 24th, 2012 @ 9:59 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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An awful lot of the DC Republican establishment is lashing out at conservatives who were unwilling to go along with John Boehner and Eric Cantor's tail-tucking surrender on taxes and the "fiscal cliff."
Published: Sunday, December 23rd, 2012 @ 8:47 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The article was about the failure of Boehner’s ‘Plan B’ proposal to win enough support to pass the Congress. The plan — identical to something Nancy Pelosi proposed in May — would keep the tax rates the same for anyone making up to $1 million a year.
Published: Friday, December 21st, 2012 @ 2:35 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Politicians in Raleigh and DC, aided and abetted by our oft-clueless media, are railing about how the only way to fix our economic mess is to get the 'guv-mint' MO' revenue.
Published: Thursday, December 20th, 2012 @ 11:35 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the real fiscal cliff that threatens to send the American economy into a steep decline - which is not the prospect of the top marginal rate on wage income rising by nearly five percentage points.
Published: Sunday, December 16th, 2012 @ 12:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Laid-off workers would see their benefits decreased and about 30 percent of the state's businesses would see their unemployment insurance taxes increased under a proposal presented Wednesday to a legislative study panel.
Published: Thursday, December 6th, 2012 @ 5:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We're in the top ten in the nation -- in terms of unemployment. Of the 19 states STILL indebted to the federal government for repayment of emergency unemployment funds, North Carolina has the third highest debt behind only New York and California.
Published: Thursday, December 6th, 2012 @ 5:28 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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What does it mean to be Republican? Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater established the national party as a force for shrinking government and cutting taxes.
Published: Tuesday, December 4th, 2012 @ 12:06 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Don't count me among those who think President Obama and Congress will spend the next month locked in a death struggle over marginal income tax rates.
Published: Saturday, December 1st, 2012 @ 2:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Everyone wants to avoid the proverbial fiscal cliff that threatens us on January 1, but nobody wants to make any sacrifices to prevent it.
Published: Friday, November 30th, 2012 @ 1:09 am
By: Tom Campbell
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We are seeing an outrageous amount of 20:20 hindsight about why Mitt Romney lost the election.
Published: Monday, November 12th, 2012 @ 8:00 am
By: Jim Bispo
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Brant Clifton wrote two short pieces on Friday, and I am writing one today. Does anyone really care?
Published: Sunday, November 11th, 2012 @ 10:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." H. L. Mencken
Published: Friday, November 9th, 2012 @ 11:22 pm
By: Warren Smith
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Let us not be so cavalier with the system that our Founders crafted for us, the one secured by the blood of over a million Americans, and the one that the rest of the world looks to.
Published: Friday, November 9th, 2012 @ 6:25 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Ayn Rand and George Orwell are starting to look like real prophets. We've got record unemployment, bankruptcies, foreclosures, and business closings.
Published: Thursday, November 8th, 2012 @ 9:53 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Hammering forcefully at what he called President Obama's "raid" on Medicare, divisive re-election tactics and economic policies that have put America on the edge of a fiscal cliff, GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan told a Raleigh crowd Wednesday it is imperative to elect Republican challenge
Published: Friday, August 24th, 2012 @ 2:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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